I know, I know, they say it’s all about blue this year, but we’ve started the year hot to trot with our new favourite colour combo, Sand and Persimmon. While they may not make good ingredients for a smoothie, they do make for a yummy colour palette, in both fashion and interiors. Clockwise above : Burda magazine ++ Paloma Wool ++ Nanamica ++ Verloop x Peanuts …
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Colour Yum: Persimmon and Sand
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India with Expedition Curiosity
Bev Missing is the founder of body and bath product company Rain Africa, and is now the organising force behind Expedition Curiosity – her travel company specialising in immersive and authentic journeys to lesser-known places. Bev loves travel, but can’t bear the usual tourist packaged experience, so her mission with Expedition Curiosity is to travel …
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A Cabin by Heath
We love this. The owners of our long-time San Francisco stockists, Heath Ceramics, have recently made their beautiful holiday cabin in Tahoe’s Alpine Valley available for all to enjoy, and it is filled with beauty from Heath itself, as well as from the brands they stock in their store. “A Cabin by Heath began in 2012 …
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PLENTY behind the scenes
Last week, we posted about the behind-the-scenes collaboration conversation between Kat Pichulik and us as we figured out how to come up with a fabric design for the Pichulik SS20 range. We’re almost ready for the big reveal on 26 October, but here’s what the studio working board is looking like right now! See the …
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Making Friday: From the studio walls
As you know, my Making Friday studio practice is all about making, making, making, with no real plan or expectation or need in mind. I find it so important to simply generate work that’s liberated from all the necessary work restrictions of cost and production possibility etc that product development requires. Here’s some of the …
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How to style your Scarf: Headwrap Tutorial
Our stockroom manager Nobuzwe is one stylish lady and can rock a headwrap in all kinds of ways. Here she shares one of her favourits styles with us in a nifty headwrap tutorial, using our Matchsticks blockprint scarf. Find our Matchsticks & Sun & Moon Scarves online & in the Skinny laMinx store at 201 …
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Pets on Pillows
We asked a bunch of snooze experts about their favourite Skinny laMinx pillow, and the score was unanimous: Everydoggy (and kitty) gave it a solid ZZZ! These are just the ordinary ol’ pillows though. Imagine how many ZZZ’s we’d get if we made a proper Skinny dog bed. Oh, wait. We did! What’s the score on this …
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Banana Bread
I can’t say for sure that this is an original recipe, but it’s been around for as long as I can remember. My mom got it from my Aunty Betty who lived in Eshowe, inland from the subtropical east coast of South Africa. Aunty Betty always had a great arm of bananas ripening at the …
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Colour Yum: Sand and Persimmon
One of the things we love about all the colour and beautiful things in our shop and fabric studio is the way that new colour ideas suddenly arrive before your eyes, often in surprising combinations. For instance, ever since we’ve had the grassy tones and textures of baskets & mats from Design Afrika in our …
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